So we only have one striker there now then?
Wayne Rooney | 2012-14 Performances
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
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Best shape in years? Pulls hamstring. Back to potato for new season
brilliantWell we have Zaha there too and Adnan can play up top too no?
Looks a bit suspicious IMO
Chelsea are in Bangkok too apparently.
Can you be knighted for services to Photoshop and giffery?
Olly deserves one.
Olly deserves one.
Ho hum, now we have a month of Rooney fake injury stories!
Looks a bit suspicious IMO
Fake injury, he came back to England to be sold
Pretty sure this is the same guy who broke the "transfer request", and Ducker and Ogden say the same - it's a genuine injury.
I'm very confident he'll be a United player next season, hilarious to read the reactions of all the butthurt crybabies on here when it finally dawns on them that he's staying.
I really hope you're right.
Say hi to José from me, Wayne.
Gonna be interesting now, being away with united may have allowed him time to get away from the English press and immerse himself back with united, but him just sitting at home getting all the speculation and people asking him if he's going to leave etc or people calling him up is just gonna keep fueling the fire until he says something.
This place is utterly mad. When it comes to Rooney, you lot are worse than RAWK. He's injured, that's all.
It's not a great leap. It's not as if RVP is being sent home and we think he could be swooped by operation yewtree. This is a player with massive question marks over his future. And he's been sent home citing injury. The team are staying where they are for a few days.Why not recuperate with them, join in the team bonding stuff, get to know the new set up and then fly home?
People are on the edge, man. It's been an emotional day. I need a drink myself.
On a sober note, though: He's just injured, yes. And whether he's here or there, injured or not, the media will keep on speculating until he signs an extension, is sold - or September rolls on.
Maybe he was told to go back to Manchester.
Medical decision: Better to recuperate at home. Sounds plausible enough. Hammers can be tricky, no need to risk anything. Not saying they ain't lying bastards, but sometimes things just are what they appear to be.
If a deal for him to leave to another club was so close that he'd been sent home, we'd have heard about it. The same journos who broke the transfer request are reporting it's a genuine injury.
So we've gone from "hamstring out for a month" to "niggle, nothing to worry about"?
He must be dreading the Chelsea medical. Making sure they don't think he's injured.
Massive blow for us to be honest especially with our fixtures at the start of the season, I bet he misses the majority of the first 3-4 matches.
I wouldn't call it a 'massive blow'. Most want him sold.
A lot of posters have been asking for Kagawa to be given a chance in his true position - this Rooney "injury" allows for that to happen.
If Wayne is genuinely injured, then it doesn't bode well for his season - he's not going to have any sort of rhythm until September/October.
I wonder if we might be dealing with a more minor injury and for the interests of all concerned an overly cautions policy is being adopted, no point exacerbating a problem that could prevent a transfer. He'd push for it and Moyes couldn't but be a bit wary.
They only left yesterday for the pre-season trip.
He will not of been injured them, how the hell has he got a grade 2 hamstring injury.
Not saying he is faking it or anything but something does not add up here.
He will not of been injured them, how the hell has he got a grade 2 hamstring injury.
Not saying he is faking it or anything but something does not add up here.
You know, footballers do occasionally play football.
This is normally how injuries come about.
Did the journos get the grade 2 line from the club or via 'sources' shall we say?
Sigh, for fecks sake. Was looking forward to seeing him in Australia.
I know that, just seems like really bad timing to be getting an injury that gets you sent home, 24 hours into a pre season tour.
Sometimes you can just be unlucky.
I want him sold, but if he's going to stay he might as well get a good preseason in and be fit for the start of the season. Now we're going to see him work his way in to shape/form for the first month or so of the season, it's going to be incredibly frustrating for me to watch.
He might not be out for any league matches, you never know. Premier League hammies are incredibly consistent - they almost always take the player out of action for exactly four weeks. Rooney has a faster rate of recovery than most, and he says it's a 'niggle', 'nothing to worry about'. So it's a decent bet that it might be even less than a month.
The community shield against Wigan is in exactly a month. The first league match is a week later. Given that Rooney's apparently in great condition at the moment, and that with a PL club's resources it's fairly easy to stay in shape with a hammy, there probably won't be much extra fitness recovery required after the injury is fully healed. Possibly a week in training to recover a bit of sharpness with the ball.
All in all, I'd guess he's probably miss the Wigan match, might miss the first league fixture, but is very unlikely to be missing for longer than that. It's a shame he can't participate in the tour, particularly for foreign fans who I'm sure are gutted that they can't see him. But other than that, it's probably better to be injured now than play a full tour and get injured just before the season proper starts.
The community shield against Wigan is in exactly a month. The first league match is a week later. Given that Rooney's apparently in great condition at the moment, and that with a PL club's resources it's fairly easy to stay in shape with a hammy, there probably won't be much extra fitness recovery required after the injury is fully healed. Possibly a week in training to recover a bit of sharpness with the ball.
All in all, I'd guess he's probably miss the Wigan match, might miss the first league fixture, but is very unlikely to be missing for longer than that. It's a shame he can't participate in the tour, particularly for foreign fans who I'm sure are gutted that they can't see him. But other than that, it's probably better to be injured now than play a full tour and get injured just before the season proper starts.
As for him and Kagawa, the situation is entirely win-win. Personally, I think Kagawa is going to impress Moyes enough to be starting at #10. I also think Rooney might actually play best from a starting position just outside Kagawa, like this:
RVP
----Rooney Kagawa -- Winger
He doesn't relish the tight spaces when receiving the ball like Kagawa, but his creativity and intelligence will shine if he's given a bit more room to work with. Under Moyes, Evra is likely to be providing most of the width anyway, and it's not as if Rooney ever stay very disciplined about his position on the pitch - he tends to go where he's needed in a very intelligent way.
That said, if Rooney shows such good form that Moyes decides he's a better option than Kagawa at #10, then that sounds like a pretty nice problem to have. Kagawa can start just outside Rooney, and the two of them can interplay the feck out of the poor defender who has to try and stop them.
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